Home is Where the Art Is

Anouilh

An art thread?

Let's post photos related to galleries, sculpture in the streets, artistic photos.

Whatever takes your fancy...

charybdis

Do you have license to post these materials?

Is that white balance intentional?

Anouilh

Australia encourages art.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ngv/interesting/

(Also, white balance chosen to suit the mood.)

thebaz

nice thread, my taste in art is different , I was underwhelmed by the RHA display , but this image in a rehab centre bowled me over

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/2554152136/

maybe not to every ones taste, but the beauty about art, is we can all have our own likes, not necessarily the elitist Art world view

Anouilh

I'm glad you like this thread, theBaz. Your choice is very powerful.

I have always found art galleries a great refuge from daily life and a consolation in times of stress. Also, I used bring my children for long afternoon rambles in Winter around the National Gallery and we discussed so many ideas.

I think you might like this blog:

http://mystory-jo.blogspot.com/2009/02/rosalie-gascoigne-1917-1999.html

If you go to the earlier post, Loss, you will see why I took care to record my visit to Australia. The fires in Victoria were a national disaster and artists were very aware of their role in keeping morale up.

Anouilh

Since half the population of Ireland seems to visit Australia, it is worth sharing details of the Water Wall in the Atrium of the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) in Melbourne. There was a lot of redesign work done on the building and the waterwall, which had become a great focus for visitors to the gallery, was retained.

While my husband went to a lecture, I spent over an hour taking shots of the Anthony Gormley installation as well as of mysterious shadows created by people walking by on the other side of the wall. There were at least six people doing much the same thing at any given time:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasminepettersen/434677448/

It would be good if European galleries encouraged a more democratic use of what are, after all, communal spaces. Our taxes have paid for all of this, as well as contributions over the years to various fund raising events.

"Art" is so often seen as "precious" or for an elite...

Anouilh

Extending the range of this thread, photographic art work for book covers is very fashionable.

http://henryseneyee.blogspot.com/2009/04/designing-book-cover-101.html